Address-plate.



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WILLIAM G. sLAUsoNQor iDAiisnsvinLE,l oHio.

ADDRESS-PLATE.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM Gr. SLAUsoN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Painesville, in the county ofLake and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Address- Plates, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to address plates for addressing machines and isparticularly Well adapted for use on such machines when the plates areto be handled by electro-magnets.

The objects of my invention are: 1st. To provide a plate with reinforcedor thickened ends so that the plates may be stacked in a galley withouthaving their type faces in contact with adjacent plates. 2nd. To providea curved plate which may be used on a rotary cylinder to print anaddress of more than two lines. 3rd. To provide a plate havinglongitudinal corrugations to stiften the plate. 4th. To provide a platehaving distinctive characters thereon to indicate a change of postoffice or railroad routing, 5th. To provide a plate having anon-printing letter to indicate the initial of the addressee so that theplates themselves form a card index. 6th. To provide a plate havingnotches arranged to expose the aforesaid index letters so they may beeasily read when the plates are stacked in a galley. 7th. To provide aplate having a soft metal type face which may be hardened after theaddress has been embossed thereon. 8th. To provide a plate which maybeengaged and held by a magnet and which 1s adapted to be used in thetype of addressing machine shown in a co-pending application for LettersPatent of the United States filed by Wm. Gr. Slauson et al., Oct.25-1911, bearing serial No. 656621. f

To these ends my invention comprises the design of address plateillustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of one species ofaddress plate. Fig. 2 is a plan view of .a second species of addressplate. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a third species of address plate. Fig. 4is a plan view of a fourth species of address plate. Fig. 5 is anenlarged cross section of the address plate. Fig. 6 is an enlarged sideelevation of one end of the plate.

Referring to the drawing the plate 1 is formed of a metal such as zinc,brass, alu- Specication of Letters Patent. Patent-ed Sept. 5, 1916..ippiication mea september 15, 1913.

Serial No. 789,845.

minumor steel soft enough to receive the embossed address 2.

The plate 1 is provided with longitudinal corrugations 3 to stifen itlengthwise and with thickened ends 4. so that the type face of one platewill clear the adjacent plate when the plates are stacked. The ends tare formed as shown in Fig. 6 by bending the metal upon` itself, therebeing five thicknesses of metal shown in the figure. lnstead of bendingthe metal upon itself a thickening piece could be welded on, or the sameresult could be obtained in a variety o-f other ways.

The plates are broadly speaking of two species, the difference beingthat one species` is provided with a central notch 5, and in the otherspecies this notch is omitted. The purpose of the notch 5 is to clear anelectrical contacting device, which when touched by a passing platecloses va circuit to operate an alarm or other device.

The normal plates are each provided with a notch 5 but the plates at theend of the post office list, or other plates as may be desired, areformed without the notch 5, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the said con`tacting device touches the middle portion 6 of the plates.

All the plates are provided with an index letter as shown at A-B--C andD. The plates coming alphabetically before the lettered plates are eachprovided with a notch as shown at 7-8-9 and 10, the said notch beingopposite the letter to be exposed. For instance the notches 7 wouldserve for the letters A-E-I--M-Q-U and Y-the notches 8 would serve forthe letters B-F- J-N-R-V-Z-the notches 9 would expose the lettersC-G--K--O-S-W-and the notches 10 would expose letters D-H- L-P-T and X.

For convenience in manufacture, each plate wouldusually be provided withtwo notches either 7 and 10 or 8 and 9. However, only one letter asA-B--C-D would be stamped on each plate. In the drawing two are shown inorder to illustrate their relation to the notches.

When used in an addressing machine in which the plates were fed over acylinder, they would preferably be curved as shown is cross section Fig.5 but obviously all the other features of construction could be used onflat plates.

' When' it is desired to handle the plates made of soft steel and if somade they mayA by a magnet, they would preferably be 2. A one pieceaddress plate provided with longitudinal corrugations, thickened endsformed by bending the material upon itself and a type address.

3. A one pieceaddress plate provided with longitudinal corrugationsandthickened ends formed by bending the metal iat on Y itself, saidplate being curved to fit the surface of a cylinder parallel to itslength and provided with an-embossed address.

4. A one piece soft steel address plate provided with longitudinalcorrugations, thickened ends, an address and a body portion which may beengaged by a magnet.

5. A one piece metal address plate provided with longitudinalcorrugations, thickened ends, and a notch to clear an electricalcontacting device.

6. A one piece metal address plate provided with longitudinalcorrugations, an

embossed address,vand thickened ends; said ends being raisedV above theprinting side of the plate more than the letters forming the address.

7. A one piece address plate provided with thickened ends, an embossedaddress in the body of the plate between the ends, corrugations alongthe lower edge of the plate between the ends, and similar corrugationssome distance below the upper edge of the plate.

8. A series of address plates each com prising a one piece address plateprovided with thickened ends, an embossed address in the body of theplate between the ends,

corrugations along the lower edge of the plate between the ends, andsimilar 4corrugations some distance below the upper edge of the plate,and a notch in the upper edge of some of the plates above the uppercorrugations.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

WILLIAM G. SLAUSON. Witnesses:

CLARENCE T. MEHAFEEY, CHARLES 0. HIGGINS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

